[Building Sakai] Edia skin manager for Sakai 10 (license incompatibility)

[Aaron Zeckoski]

I think Seth is right about this. As I understand it, we can only
include LGPL as long as we don't modify it. Not being able to modify a
tool is not really a situation we want to get into for core code.
-AZ


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Seth Theriault <slt at columbia.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Mark J. Norton
> <markjnorton at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Actually, it's LGPL, which isn't nearly as restrictive as the GPL.  I
>> believe Sakai is using some packages that are LGPL.
>
> Sakai has only ever included unmodified 3rd-party libraries that use
> the LGPL pursuant to:
>
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/LIC/LGPL2.1
>
> The Skin Manager is not a 3rd-party library or the like. so my opinion
> is that the LGPL is a problem.
>
> Seth
>
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